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200 Years ago a Philadelphia newspaper claimed George Washington wasn't the "father of his country." It claimed John Adams really wanted to be king. Its editors were arrested by the federal government. One editor died awaiting trial. The story of this newspaper is the story of America. In this monumental story of two newspaper editors whom Presidents Washington and Adams sought to jail for sedition, American Aurora offers a new and heretical vision of this nation's beginnings, from the vantage point of those who fought in the American Revolution to create a democracy - and lost.… (más)
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Published in The Pennsylvania Gazette, May 27, 1731 Being frequently censur'd and condemn'd by different Persons for printing Things which they say ought not to be printed, I have sometimes thought it might be necessary to make a standing Apology for my self, and publish it once a Year, to be read upon all Occasions of that Nature...
I request all who are angry with me on the Account of printing things they don't like, calmly to consider these following Particulars
1. That the Opinions of Men are almost as various as their Faces...
2. That the Business of Printing has chiefly to do with Mens Opinions; most things that are printed tending to promote some, or oppose others...
4. That it is as unreasonable in any one Man or Set of Men to expect to be pleas'd with every thing that is printed...
5. Printers are educated in the Belief, that when Men differ in Opinion, both Sides ought equally to have the Advantage of being heard by the Publick; and that when Truth and Error have fair Play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter...
8. That if all Printers were determin'd not to print any thing till they were sure it would offend no body, there would be very little printed. Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Editor, The Pennsylvania Gazette, 1729-1748
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This work is dedicated to Poor Richard and Young Lightening-Rod and Rat-Catchers Who Aspire to Their Legacy.
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"It was a special time in the history of America. The Vice President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, called it a 'reign of witches'."
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If you read the Aurora of this City ... you cannot but have perceived with what malignant industry and persevering falsehoods I am assailed in order to weaken, if not destroy, the confidence of the Public. -- George Washington
[George Washington] is very jealous of Dr. Franklin & those who are governed by Republican Principles from which he is very averse. --Paul Wentworth, British spy
I knew [Benjamin Franklin] had conceived an irreconcilable hatred to me and that he had propagated and would continue to propagate prejudices, if nothing worse, against me in America from one end of it to the other. Look into Bache's Aurora and Duane's Aurora for twenty years and see whether my expectations have not been verified.
I knew there was need enough of both, and therefore I consented to them [The Alien and Sedition Acts, 1798]...
--John Adams
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I take leave of you, dear reader, with a remembrance of Monday, September 17, 1787, the last day of the Federal Constitution in Philadelphia. James Madison records:
Whilst the last members were signing [the new U.S. Constitution], Doctr Franklin, looking towards the President's Chair, at the back of which a rising sun happened to be painted, observed to a few members near him, that Painters had found it difficult to distinguish in their art a rising from a setting sun. “I have,” said he, “often ... in the ...vicissitudes of my hopes and fears ... looked at that [sun] behind the President without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting: But now at length I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting Sun.”
200 Years ago a Philadelphia newspaper claimed George Washington wasn't the "father of his country." It claimed John Adams really wanted to be king. Its editors were arrested by the federal government. One editor died awaiting trial. The story of this newspaper is the story of America. In this monumental story of two newspaper editors whom Presidents Washington and Adams sought to jail for sedition, American Aurora offers a new and heretical vision of this nation's beginnings, from the vantage point of those who fought in the American Revolution to create a democracy - and lost.
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